Unit : Travel

Topic : Transportation

Prathomsuksa 5

Vocabularies

rail

bus

transportation

tram

passenger

Structure

Quantifiers

Quantifiers show the number and answer the question ’How much?’.Quantifiers include words such as most, many, some.

Example

Most rails are fast.

plural noun

plural verb

Most of the milk spills in the bus.

singular noun

singular verb

Most + singular noun + singular verb (is / verb + es)+ plural noun + plural verb(are / infinite verb)

Some + singular noun + singular verb (is / verb + es)+ plural noun + plural verb (are / infinite verb)

Example

Some passengers get off the bus.

plural noun

plural verb

Some of the bread falls in the train.

singular noun

singular verb

Many + plural noun + plural verb (are / infinite verb)

Example

Many buses are on the road.

plural noun

plural verb

Public Transportation

Most cities have different form of public transportation. Buses are a common form of public transportation. They share the road with other traffic. They pick up and drop off passengers at specific places called bus stops. Most city buses can carry about seventy people.

Many cities have rail systems. Electric trains run under the ground or on elevated tracks. These trains can have from one to ten cars and each car can carry up to one hundred passengers. Some cities have trams or cable car. These run on tracks along the city streets. Old trams were noisy and slow, but modern trams are quite, comfortable and fast.

Questions

What is the common form of public transportation?

The bus.

How many people that the bus can carry?

About seventy people.

Where can the electric trains run?

Under the ground or on elevated tracks.

Activity 1

True or false1.Many cities don’t have rail system.

False

2.Buses can carry about sixty people.

False

3. Electric trains run in the sky.

False

4. Modern tram are quiet and fast.

True

5. This train can have one to ten cars in them.

True

Activity 2

Role-play

Situation : Imagine your friends and you are using the transportation bus, train, and

tram .After that Introduce about what kind of the vehicle of your group and show to the class how to use it.